Health diet: smoothies..are they bad for you?

Witzend

What sometimes irritates me about ‘healthy eating’ talk, is that too often it seems to include relatively expensive items that would usually rule out anyone on a tight budget - chicken breasts, salmon steaks, blueberries and goji berries (whatever they may be) are a few that come to mind.
You don’t often see any mention of e.g. carrots, cabbage and sprouts! Or at least I don’t.

What is your source of protein?

PamelaJ1

Tim Spector is my go to guru. I’ve bought about 6 of his Diet Myth books. I keep giving them away to friends. I hope they appreciate it?
Re: smoothies, it’s just too easy to drink a lot of fruit. If you lined up a banana, an apple and a peach and ate them individually you would feel that you had eaten a lot. Not so much with a drink?

Can I be your friend, please! There were a few people that I used to follow when they used to write in the Observer. Barefoot doctor, who wrote about lifestyle ( although his reputation took a nose dive) and Dr John Briffa who wrote about diet. He made a lot of sense but one week told everyone to stop using microwaves and the paper dropped him soon afterwards. But my main go to is DrAli’s Nutrition Bible. He, too, was discredited but I still agree with his advice. When I had awful stomach and digestion problems years ago the medical profession couldn’t help me at all so I followed his advice and got better. It’s basically Ayurvedic medicine which I think the western world should follow. In fact I’m going to dig out my Barefoot Doctor books. A few years ago I gave my daughter a jar of nuts as part of her Christmas presents and said when it was empty I would top it up because nuts were so good for you but I don’t think she listened to me.

Ooh I love nuts!!
They are in my top ten best things to eat!

I have found the Blood Group Diet very interesting. Your body can absorb certain foods better than others according to your blood group, which affects your metabolism. So some foods encourage weight gain, others encourage weight loss. Even certain fruit and veg can be better for you than others. Mine says most fruits are 'neutral' although grapes, plums, cranberries and cherries are 'highly beneficial' and bananas, rhubarb and oranges should be avoided.

I don't follow it slavishly, but I do try to lean towards the foods that suit my metabolism. I know someone who is highly allergic to dairy, turns out they are Group A who should 'avoid dairy'.

It makes sense, I don’t particularly enjoy smoothies, whole fruits fill me up much more plus there’s the the added benefits of digesting the fibre & roughage. Eating fruit whole is also better for our blood sugars.

Fruit juices are so high in sugar and very acidic so terrible for the teeth. Years ago a relative of mine gave her children apple juice when they were toddlers because she thought it was a natural healthy product. She had a real shock on their first visit to the dentist!

Fruit juices are so high in sugar and very acidic so terrible for the teeth. Years ago a relative of mine gave her children apple juice when they were toddlers because she thought it was a natural healthy product. She had a real shock on their first visit to the dentist!
As a child my daughter loved a particular apple juice which was a very sweet, concentrated brown syrup. She drank it all the time but highly diluted of course. As an adult she has the best teeth ever and has never had a single filling in her life. What makes us have good or poor teeth, who knows? Maybe a good subject for another thread.

timetogo2016

My dentist said smoothies are really bad for your teeth.
Too much sugar and acids all in one go.

I drink mine with a straw so it bypass’s my teeth..?